New Democratic Challenges: AI, Populism, and Liberalism

Abstract

While new digital and technological developments, such as generative artificial intelligence, enhanced global dialogue by means of digital social media platforms, have a transformative potential for the democratic dialogue at the global level, paradoxically, they bring together challenges that shape societal dynamics to closure and exclusion. Not only does a novel affirmation of national politics take place, but also its ongoing erosion that conceptualises demos increasingly in a reductive way to distil ‘true people’. This panel will examine various dimensions of these new developments for democracies.

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